Windows 11 26H2 Official Release Breaks Audio Devices, Causes Black Screen and more

In this article, we will talk about the Known Issues already documented in Windows 11 26H2 Official Release.

Windows 11 26H2 has just been released, but some of the Known Issues existing in 25H2 are also present in 26H2, along side with a few other Known Issues that have been documented.

USB Audio Devices might fail

After installing Windows 11, version 26H2, some USB Audio Class 1.0 devices might fail to start or produce audio. Affected devices might experience one or more of the following symptoms: 

The device displays an error in Device Manager: “This device cannot start (Code 10).” 
No audio output.
Volume controls are unresponsive or remain at zero. 
Sound settings are unresponsive or unavailable. 


This issue is limited to USB Audio Class 1.0 devices.

Microsoft is working to address this issue in a future Windows update and will provide more information when it is available.

For additional information related to this Known Issue, you can check this article from the Microsoft Blog.

Domain-joined devices Issue

After installing Windows 11, version 26H2, some Credential Guard protected machine accounts might lose their secure channel with an on-premises Active Directory (AD) domain. Users might then be unable to sign in interactively with valid domain credentials and might receive a message stating that the trust relationship between the device and the domain failed. Offline sign-in using previously cached credentials might continue to work. AD replication and AD services on the domain controllers are not affected. 

Microsoft is working to address this issue in a future Windows update and will provide more information when it is available.

For additional information related to this Known Issue, you can check this article from the Microsoft Blog.

Black Screen or Desktop Loading

After installing Windows 11, version 26H2, and subsequent updates, some devices might experience desktop loading issues. This issue has been primarily observed on Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) hosts, using FSLogix. This issue appears to occur more frequently with some existing user profiles.

Symptoms might include:

A black screen appears after sign-in and the desktop session does not load automatically.
Users might be unable to access their desktop until the desktop session is started manually.
Application event logs might show Windows Explorer crashes.

Microsoft is working to address this issue in a future Windows update and will provide more information when it is available.

For additional information related to this Known Issue, you can check this article from the Microsoft Blog.

For more information related to Windows 11 26H2 Issues, you can check this article from Microsoft.

For a more in-depth guide, you can watch the video below from the YouTube channel.

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